Rest between workouts

One of the laws of physiology tells us that muscles grow not during workouts. This law applies to everyone. But, in this case, when they grow up? Have you noticed that coming home after a shock workout, you feel much more broken than before the gym? This is a consequence of damage to the muscle fibers and exhausted nervous system. Of course, energy resources of the body also squeezed like a lemon. You need to give the body a productive stay, during which will happen, something very good.

Rest is the recovery time of whole body and muscle tissue in the particular body rebuild damaged fibers, making muscles stronger and bigger restores the stored energy to compensate for some excess. Nervous system at the same time, recruitment of motor units. In more simple terms, the positive changes for which you're training regularly, did not occur during the workout. But some of us neglect a good rest, not allowing the body to produce all the above positive changes in fully, and this hinders the progress required.

One of the reasons is the impatience that each of us wants to build the body of your dreams and do it immediately. Very often, this desire compels them to spend in the gym, more time, with the result that training becomes irrational. Well, what to do, since every person is accustomed to the principle of "the harder you work, the better the result". From early childhood parents and teachers forced a lot to learn, and the coaches put the word "success" after the word "work". And starting to work, each quickly realizes that the more you give your career, the more salary he's talking.

But if we are talking about training and building muscle mass, worth the stay: this way to act in this case is senseless and simply stupid. Even the most prolonged and intense exercise will never produce the desired results in the absence of proper rest and recovery. Working at the limit of their capabilities, you can even begin to regress. And worst of all — most of the guys that do not receive expected outcome from diligent training, start to work at an even greater pace.

But "lack of progress does not equal lack of load". Better to say "lack of progress equal to the incorrect ratio of stress and recovery." Thus, in planning the programme of training must include a sufficient amount of time to rest, allowing the body to fully recover and progress.